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NFL: Bad tackling? It's because they don't practice

If you practiced tackleing at 100% you would have no one to be around to play the games on Sundays.

In college they do have live tackling in practice, but that is because of scout teams, basically guys who don't suit up for the games or don't play in the games. Even in college they lay off by mid season. In the NFL you basically have 50 football players, kickers don't count in my book. You barely have enough guys to go two deep at every position. Every week there are half a dozen or so guys who are hurt so that decreases the numbers even more. How would you feel as a fan if your best layer went down for the season in a tackling drill?

So it's okay if your best player is lost to injury in a regular game?

This sport sounds barbaric. But if it's a substitute for war, then I guess it's the better alternative.

That is why you have so many hurt, because they are not battle hardened. There are alot of great running backs and highlights because there are alot of bad tacklers. Blocking and tackling make a great team, you play like you practice...my philosphy is that 90% of injuries come from players being out of shape!

I'm not sure why you'd have to practice tackling; the No Fun League has outlawed it.

You can't lead with your head, (And see how the neck injuries climb?), you can't hit a QB below the knees, above the shoulders, or grab him by the neck from behind.

You can't hit an "unprotected" reciever as he goes across the middle, and if the ball carrier is even near a sideline, Lord have mercy on you if you bump 'em out of bounds, cause no one else will.

Brush a face mask, no matter if it aided the tackle or not; and it's fifteen yards, but only because the players union says you can't hang 'em for it.

Practice tackling? Might as well practice soccer. It's gotten about as wimpy as that anyway.


Somewhere Bronco Ngurski and Dick "Night Train " Lane are smashing locker doors into oblivion. They'd weep instead, but it ain't manly and that'd make 'em like the sissies that play today!